come, spring!

print top - Wet Seal
skirt - Weathervane

She's pulling out the cutesy patterned shirts again—can it be spring?  Oh, can it be??  (although the colours definitely put me in the mindset of fall...)

I recall this was a day I was able to walk to some friends' house without the aid of a coat or jacket or scarf.  It felt glorious to be able to do that again.  We're making progress, Spring!!

silly boy

shirtdress - H&M
jeans - American Eagle

When thinking of a pose to draw, I remembered laughing really hard earlier in the day.  Then I had to think a bit harder to remember why I'd laughed.  It was because a certain hilarious four-year-old was telling me about when his older brother had put a box of styrofoam packing peanuts above a door that his sister or mom later walked through.  And how this brother had also once put a cup of water above a door his sister later walked through (apparently it missed her, but got water everywhere else).  And then the kid had the great idea that he would put the box of packing peanuts he was currently playing with... behind a door.  Because he couldn't put it on top of the door, of course, it's up so high! He dashed off and I started cracking up because it was so absurd; a couple minutes later he was back and trying to persuade me that I should go through that door.  Kids are so weird.  (the rest of the story goes: I opened the door.  I saw that there was a box of packing peanuts behind it.  The end.)

the end!! (of a sketchbook)

lace shirt - Wet Seal/Blue Asphalt
corduroys - UnionBay

I drew this on the back of the last half-page in my sketchbook (it was a half-page because I tore out half of it on another occasion).  Facing the back cover of my sketchbook, covered in fruit and vegetable stickers and a weird drawing of a platypus, what was I to do if I couldn't acquire a new sketchbook soon?!  Oh, the horror!  (spellcheck, don't you tell me I spelled "couldn't" wrong.)

Well... you'll have to wait till tomorrow to find out what happened next.

chase the cat!!!!!!

green shirt - Old Navy
skirt - American Eagle (secondhand)
socks - Sockdreams
tights - JCPenny

My cat and I have this game we play in the evenings, anytime from around 6pm to midnight.  It's called "Chase the cat out of my room and halfway down the stairs, then go sit down and wait for him to come tearing into my room and crashing into the mirror or plant stand, then chase him again."  He seems to enjoy it, so I try to be accommodating, but sometimes he wants to play this game when I'm in work mode and it's very distracting.  The best part for me is the way his eyes get huge and black and ferocious-looking.  Such a cat!

cuddly cat

This is our Finny cat.  He had fleas, but we're getting rid of them.  That means we can let him inside now and then!!  And he can be all adorable and cuddly and floppy!  Hooray for cats :D

I think I need to buy some new skirts.  I haven't bought a new skirt since sometime this spring!! And I don't have quite enough wintery ones.  Plaid skirts are great in winter.

knit pumpkin

bunchy and warm

my latest book

This was drawn on the occasion of picking up my complimentary copies of the latest book I'd illustrated.  (only, actually I'd illustrated another book right after it, but those were still being printed.  Man, I can still remember the crazy-busy of the weeks before...)

By the way [commercial follows]: this book (along with others I've illustrated) is available through Amazon and the authors' website. If you see me regularly in person, I've got copies to sell as well.  And you can ask for it at fine bookstores everywhere! (...I think!) [commercial—the end]

kinda katsura!

cashier princess